"Edible names are what drives me as a musician. My next band will be called the Hot Dogs."
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"Sometimes one of us will have a riff or a bass line from home but it really gels when we come together. We really have a strong special chemistry that we take advantage of when we get together."
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"I'm a musician. It's what I do! I wouldn't be too good at anything else."
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"Family time is really important to me."
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"People who come up to me are drummers or fans of the band. I don't get it too much, but I'll be somewhere and someone will have me take a picture or something."
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"Going up north with the redwoods and driving along the coast, it's got everything, man. It's got the desert, the mountains, and the ocean. It's beautiful."
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"The juxtaposition of words - the color, feeling, and sound of the words together - has as much to do with the story as the narrative itself does."
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"Its very sort of spontaneous and organic, not a preconceived sort of jamming. Now we record everything, cause sometimes you'll forget, you know, 'what was that thing again?' So we record everything."
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"There's something about the rawness of the live thing, there's no rhythm guitars behind the solo, nothing other than what you hear the people playing at that moment. It's exciting, it's about the performance."
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